Barbara Harper-Nelson, Genevieve Monneris

Broschiertes Buch

The French Squadrons

A True Story of Love and War

Beschreibung

The most extraordinary memoir of the Second World War in the air since First Light by Geoffrey Wellum

Autor

Barbara Harper-Nelson (nee Rigby), was living in Liverpool when she met 22 year-old Francis Usai of the Free French air force based in England. This book is based on their remarkable diaries and letters. The correspondence is edited by French film-maker Genevieve Monneris and translated into English by Michel Darribehaude, Senior Lecturer in British Civilisation Studies at the Universite du Sud Toulon Var.Geneviève Monneris won Best Documentary, at the Imperial War Museum London Film Festival 2012, for De Lourds Souvenirs, 24-12-1944, a film about her father's aircrew (347 'Tunisie' Squadron) made with her son Thomas Lesgoirres. She is the author of two other documentary films in memory of the French Squadrons in RAF Bomber Command, which have been screened at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington / York, and at London Imperial War Museum: Apart from that, everything's ok! including six French veterans' accounts with archive wartime footage, and Henry and Pat, December 1943-November 1944, a film about another Franco-English couple, Henri and Pat Martin who were Francis and Barbara's closest friends.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amberley Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 124mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781445655383
• ISBN-10: 1445655381
• Artikelnr.: 44056440